MA Programme

About us

The Graduate School for Social Research (GSSR) at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences educates students at the postgraduate level. We offer programmes giving the possibility of obtaining a British Master of Arts degree from Lancaster University, and as well as programmes leading to a doctorate awarded by the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Students who successfully complete our postgraduate programme requirements giving the possibility of obtaining a British Master of Arts degree awarded by Lancaster University are eligible to continue to the School's PhD programme. They must ...

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The Institute of Philosophy and Sociology is one of the research centres of the Polish Academy of Sciences. The Institute’s primary objective is to carry out advanced research in philosophy and sociology as well as in cognitive and communication fields. Apart from its research activity the Institute is engaged in education, publishing and popularisation of science.

The growing reputation of Lancaster University is reflected by high rankings year on year in each of the UK’s major university league tables.
Now approaching our 50th year, the University is proud of its international reputation as a centre for excellence in teaching and research, and of the support and positive feedback that it receives from its students.

The Open Society Foundations first began in 1979 when George Soros was able to decide that he had enough money and could pursue his ambition of establishing open societies in place of authoritarian forms of government. “Open society is based on the recognition that our understanding of the world is inherently imperfect.”
“What is imperfect can be improved.”